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well meaning people ask why
is the charge repeated, after it had
beon categorically denied, that the Wil-
son Administration betvayed the Irish
1, 1916.
peated because it is
absolutely true. t has never bee)
gorically denied, and if it had een, he
denial woul been prompt!
What was dented « § a charge that
nobody had characteristic
tele ot aisnonet vaen when they are
ge actually made
wos hat information was treacherously
thled tt to send out ite warships to in:
tercept and capture the arms-laden Ger
man ship. . The dental . made
yharge not made by anybody
information had been given to the Brit-
ish Government which- enabled ie 2°
arrest Sir Roj Roser Casement.
Americ n. aber. ot
the Wilson _Adsinietration—iaew that
Sir Roger Casement had 1 r was
going to’ start, for Ireland, that “‘enial
was a dishonest. subterfuge. -And Sec-
a8, Put. up. to.
ag
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tent by wireless to, Berlin on Monday,
pr
On Tosday, April 18, the New York
f. th
ment of Justice, and that
tion from Dublin to
was seized and cai
m
wes of internstional ‘ew! Re
personal as-
saults committed oo the occupants of
the the papers were takei
away notwithstanding a protest made
fn the name of the German
ment, 8
‘. OFFICIALS reas THEMSELVES
Al tntormation vee ne press regard:
ing that Meal raid was given out
Yon Tgel’s office, as
they called the branch ofice of the
Man Emb: basey, there was found oS
dence of “an irish lot”—the | tmplice
Yo KIL, No. 43. Whofe No, 684,
WILSON ADMINISTRATION BETRAYED IRELAND
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Hessage From Dublin To Berlin, Giving Date OF Intended Landing Of Arms, Seized
In The Mlegal Raid On Von Igel’s Office Ia New York, And Described In The
News Given To The Press From Marshall's And Gregory’s Offices As
oe An “Irish Plot” To Break American Law, Communicated At Ouce
To The British Goverament—The Resutt Was The Seizure Of
An Arms-Laden Ship And The Frustration Of The Irish
' Rebellion—Tell- tale Admissions Made. Before
British Royal Commission And By “ A High se
Washington Official” To The United :
Press—Basest: Act In All mes
American History.
ington, th +
conveyed by the Wilson. Administration | nine” ecame violent and threat
to the British Government which en-| oq wi ublic Were led to
thet O°
p-| Authority on international lew” took
. Wileon to go aheat
Govern- | In
Proposed landing of German arms ”
Ireland “on the night of
23,” that was certainly the “Irish plot"
wot
of neutrality, this unnamed auth ority
made | for Irishmen to send
arms to- eotend trom - Ame
ided the arms
erica, - pro-
were a accompanied | »
either would
r Trigh-
n
orms rman:
v
contents of the document seized in von
Igel’s office and to th ing of
the ,“Irish “plot.” The men who hi
‘American citizens were butcher-
ed swore in a tight place and their “high
them out of it.
In passing it may, be mentioned here
| that Tae Gartio Am
weeks in- su coef,
8e
|, broke
brought, 4 doltbte
Hi the mertean Government
dared ‘not face ‘he ordeal
THE MOTIVE psrasnrsnen.
ight, either legal
Their published
n of the murder.
fe: Bt
rection in Ireland. neither neces
sary nor expedient: to cite all the evi-
dence here, but there is some very im-
XN portant
‘ew Yor! he office of J. how. mony from the other side of the Atlan-
den Mevsbait the United States Dis-| {ic some of it in a Blue Book contain-
friet Attorney, under whose orders the| ing the -official Report of an English
Work was , and later from the De-| p6v91 Commission. 1
Partment - of ~Just! in Washington, THE “AUD” REACHED IRELAND.
a r
with 10 machine
ammunition and a considerable quan-
tity of explosives, was sent from Ger-
many, eluded the vigilance of the Brit
ct
ish fleet,
cruisers whe ‘stooped d and question ned
her and let pass op, reached ' the
coast of Kerry, was there captured by
sunk by her
the whi
a British patrol bon as and subsequently
Mr,|ed th> sunken
‘{|had found her "heavily loeded with. ma.
¢| made
a
‘| eiptine them but that polly. ma iy. be
dl
wholly unassailable testt-|®
guns, 20,000 rifles, a large supply of | w;
. NEW YORK, OCTOBER 21, 1916,
JOHN-P. HOLLAND,
Inventor of the Submarine.
e, at co thie #5
several hours testified to ls fact at a
Public trial of an Irish. p)
Br: ish Government diver wl
vessel reported that he
chine guns,.rifles,’ ammunition
Plo sives,
vessel ¢ laden “with ~~ milite:
it pies for. Irish insurgents, was le to
the coast of Ireland through meas
: ernment “ot Ire)
patrolled by the British fleet and was
ly caught after reaching her destina-
- tho
she caught? "British oft
men responsible for the zov-
eland by-England—sapply
the answer: and’ show ‘thet it was
throdgtthformafton ~ pevelve =f
"Ho an
clals—t
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Action They Took— They Haye
“Will Knit The Irish
Finally * Bring
‘The splendid letter. from al Dublin
priest, which will be found below, came
to America enclose in a letter to the
editor of Tne Gaznie Asemcan, with
the following instruct:
you
lis liberty to do so.. I
am qu iwilng 0 take the consequen-
.|ces, whatever: they may be. Befor
Easter ‘Week. I spoke’ in public as
other; whose address
editor-thought it so well worth
publishing that he at once had a copy
of it and then forwarded the letter
rected. But, in ‘spite of
fair, in view of present conditions in
Ireland, to name, . Butcher
well. has, far, refrained from ar-
..| resting Priests, contenting, Mmmselt with
vain requet their Bishops to. dis-
it. , The arrest a
Nationalist.
etter was written in May, but delayed
In transmissto:
A PRIEST'S NOBLE LETTER.
‘ Dublin, May, 1916.
My Dear Brother:
pilot
o had her ‘nder *gbeervation for
“From your letter of 30th ult. T-ean
seo you have been reading the Eastion
leader:
shink the Teter worth pub-
the brave | ¢
PRIESTS SPLENDID DEFENCE OF. THE MARTYRS :
—_—_
In Letter To lis Brother Io America He Pays Ba ‘Tribute To The Insorgent
‘Leaders, All Of Whour He Knew Intimately, “Testifies To The Parity Of Their .
Motives, Their Noble Self-Sacrifice! Aud. The Absolute Necessity Of The
Saved Ireland's Soul, Revivified
The National Spirit, Which Was: Bying, And ‘Proved That -
» England Is Still The England OF Cromwell,” ireton .
And Of The ~ Horrors Of Niny-ight—Tht herp aed
Race Together ” ‘And
Independence, .
kept Dress, at. the Unltd ‘States, and in te
nsequen os altogether
col judge
wrongly. our recent Insurrection ‘here,
its motives
8 latest * gallant auempt |p
concerning thi
to our ~ long ainpressed, gross]
free
te| maligned native Ian
England has used, and ts still using
eve 8 of suppressing the truth
&
Tt
would prevent this letter ever reaching
you by puainer Ty post, so I co! dit
a the han fa Confidential ‘trlend
io" will) T Shope, find means of safely
fellvering it it.
SPIRIT OF CROMWELL STILL LIVES h
We, in Dublin, can no longer have
any doubt—if ever anyone had—who
Sr
aes
ry as any, that hay
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‘New York, N.
aa | Whom
great
their condition arises from no fault on | 1
Entered ns serond-ctana matter, Oct. 1, 1508. at the Post Ufice at
Y.. under the act of Congress of Mareh 3. 187%.
aN
4 JOURNAL DEVOTED TO, THE CAUSE OF IRISH INDEPENDENCE, IRISH LITERATURE AND THE INTERESTS OF THE IRISH RACE. :
PRICE FIVE CENTS.
RELIEF BAZAAR OPENS IN BLAZE OF GLORY
Nora Connolly Hoists The Tricolor Of The Irish Republic, With The Stars And
Stripes, From Roof Of Madison Square Garden, And To The Blare Of Tram
pets And The Music Of Military Bands Formally Opens The Fair—Im-
. * mense Crowds Throng The Garden Nightly Aud Make It A
Splendid Success—Fine Statue Of Emmet Bréathes The Spirit
Of Irish Nationhood Into Everything—Splendid Cou-
certs By Mme. Gadski
Artists—Germans W
And Other Well Knowa
ork Actively For. its
« Success —~Fine Display Of Irish Art And
Various Ctlier
Exhibits—Most
linpressive Dewonstration.
The great Irish Dazaar opened last
‘ode! i veritable
blaze of glory. the efforts of
various pro-English agencies to inter-
fere with it the Bazaar a pro-
nounced success. all’ the way ugh
from the opening of acne rday after-
noon to the presen’ when it
closes on Sunday night, “ie te hopefully
estimated that two hundred thousand
dollars will be fully realized.
About twenty thousand attended the
opening on Saturday, which took place
when Miss Nora Connolly,
hoisted the American
fag and the flag of the Irish Republic
from the roof of Madison Square Gai
den, Simultaneously with
a
salute, the ‘bugler blew lustily, "and. to
the accompaniment of splendid military
music the Bazaar’ was officially opened.
At opening ceremony
Hughes Kelly, the banker, wi
allowed to enter Ireland a few months
ago for the purpose of distriboting $25,
000 for the sufferers a1
ot ote _Repettion: and Mrs, Kelly, wei
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B
phe ‘tisces McDermott and the Misses
Gifford, whose sister, was_marri
Joserh Plunkett in hts cell just before
his execution,“also. wai otsting
. Kavan-
h, Sergeant’ J. Gallagher, Corporal
Michael Dono jue,” Trumpeter Joseph
Kavanagh’ and Private E. Bergen.
COMMITTEE IN CHARGE.
mittee in charge of the open-
ne consisted of John J. O’:eary, Prest-
lent; Edward @. Moore, Secretary;
Thomas Hughes Kelly, Treasurer; we
tice Daniel F. Cohalan, . chairman of th
Board of Directors; George J. Gille ne
Chairman -of-the Finan: ence Comm
and James K. McGuire, cusirman of
the Xew ere Committee.
in the evening, Vietor Herbert n
te weelebrat composer, who 1s
Freedom, delivered the opening adress,
after numerous telegrams had been read
from Prominent ‘risen ait over “he
country wishing the aan
speed. Mr Herbert sald in part as “ok
ont the sacred names of charity and
the people of Anjerica are nover deaf to
yr help trem any. worthy
quarter, and that their heerte and thelr
urses are ever Tagponsive to, the cry
or suiering humant
“ uite sure no appeal
to us more closely than that-made by
this Bazaar, organized for the purpose
of Increasing the Irish “Relief Fund.
Never has there been a more worthy
a cause than that of helping those for
now appeal,
their
thefr pari
“No lover of Itberty can question the
resolution,
courage of ‘those hero! men w
for Iberty last Easter Weel
sure history will date the weginning of
ent for Irish Hbert;
{ons and have won for themselves Im:
Petighable fame.*
jains for us, in common with
be helped and sustain:
that end in view that we are here to-
ight.
Mfto all of you I bid in the language
of our race a cordial caed mile fatithe,
and now I formally open the fair. 1
thank you.” ~
-'The band. then struck up the “Star-
Spangled Banner,” and thousands join-
ed ia the singing of Key's tmmortal
The > Bazaar is receiving large sup-
port from the German Soctefies, among
daughter of | Jerome
the raising | ment
of the fieg the Irish Volunteers fired al a
‘Ss! people to Mr. Connol
mong the families
re what
has coma} ™
which the German Lefderkranz, the
Plattsdeutscher Verein, the German-
American
The entire walls fi
Garden are beautifully decorated with
the Green, White and Orang: fe ot the
Irish-Republic, and the
phere of the Place is splendity ‘rie
and inspirational.
STATUE OF EMMET.
Immediately inside the entrance | there
is a.magn statue of Emm
Connor, the well known, Tesh
sculptor, of which one cannot speak
highl e, work is splendid in Ne
every outline, and is
of the deathiess hopes of a nation
=
nown
feat... Ag -one was remark
one night, “if the r df
re mons to
give
lent everywhere, :
oy
‘aped. in Green,
White and Orange, ant each one named
artyr,. display all
Beautiful examples
of Irish lace work are shown in almost
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several paintings and rare
y of the life of “Red Hugh"
O'Donnell, in Irish and English, has
been donated by a member of the Har-
tem Gaelic League, and is being sold on
hares,
Mr. John J. Hearn of Westfield,
Mass, sent a beautifully designed
k case, and’ standing out particu!
ly among the artistic features is the
well known motto of the Master:
“To the Glory of God and the Honor of
ote ” splendidly done by Mr, John
Le’
The Gaelic League: ts also disposing
ofa splendid black and whi ite | drawing,
, the T rtist.
ontation of “Alles
ron
deauti-
tally haunting Bleture of Ireland, There
re also two pictures by George Rus-
sell CE), and several by Madam Mark-
fevicz, who has been sentenced to life
imprisonment for her part in the recent
¥aster Week Rebellion,
SUBMARINE ARRIVES,
On Monday the original Holland sub-
marine, the famous Fenian ram, which
was constructed by John P. Holland
fo ‘or the purpose of destroying the Brit-
wy and thereby bring about the
Independence of Ireland, was drought
from New Haven, Conn., where it has
lain for upwards of thirty years. All
coated with rust ft lies back-near th
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